A Modern Book of Esthetics: An Anthology

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Pagina 122rational connection, that is, no nexus through the world of external reality. It
breaks the words up into lines of arbitrary length, cutting across their logical
construction. It breaks down their associations, derived from the world of external reality, ...

Pagina 130The answer is, because poetry is an adaptation to external reality. It is an
emotional attitude towards the world. It is made of language and language was
created to signify otherness, to indicate portions of objective reality shared
socially.

Pagina 132To a poet who brings a new portion of external reality into the ambit of poetry, we
feel more gratitude than to one who brings the old stale manifest contents. But the
first poet may be poor in the affective coloring with which he soaks his piece of ...